Inter Plant Material Ordering (MRP)

[Former Member]

Hi PP Experts,

My client has the following requirement,

Two Plants exists Plant A and Plant B. Plant A centrally handles purchasing from external vendors. Material usage happens from both the plants (for Projects in PS). Material required for Plant B are requested from Plant A and transfered via or:red}Stock Transport Orders. The total material requirement (for Plant A and B) are centrally procured from Plant A then stored and dispatched as and when requested by Plant B. We use MRP for material planning.

I want to configure the system in such a way that when I run MRP for Plant B stock Tranasport Orders (or Requisitions) are created at Plant B to get goods from Plant A. When MRP is run for Plant A it should creat PR s for external vendors considering the Plant B requirement as well.

Please guide me on this.

Cheers

Deepal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

define a special procurement key for your product that is in plant B.

The special procurement key should say that it is a stock transfer (U) from plant A.

(in customising==> Production / MRP / Master data / define special procurement key

then assign that key to your products in plant B (in the MRP2 screen of the materials).

Any requirements in plant B tha are not covered by the stock on hand will be passed on to plant A.

Hope it helps.

Edited by: Pascal on Jul 31, 2009 2:10 PM